Hafsa Abdul-Hakeem is from Georgia and currently resides in New Jersey. She is a graduate from Georgia State University with a degree in Mathematics. She currently works as a Case Manager in a non-profit and volunteers with the PTO at her son’s school. Hafsa has been an Islamic studies enthusiast from her youth, she studied Islamic studies and Quranic recitation from her youth with local scholars and teachers in her community. She traveled to Tarim to study while residing in Dar al-Zahra. She studied Arabic and Tajwid in Egypt and graduated from the Qasid Institute for Classical Arabic in Amman, Jordan where she was also able to get her Ijaza in Tajwid from Dar Al-Quran and study Islamic studies with Dar Al-Tawfiq. She continued her studies in the states in Qiraat and also in Islamic studies with Safina Society.
She was thrilled to find out about the women’s scholarship program with Ribaat and jumped on the wave in 2013. She is a Rabata Chapter Co-Lead, a teacher with the Ribaat Tajwid Program and a Rabata Dragonflies instructor.
She is a daughter, sister, wife and mom of two boys who she sees as her youngest teachers and her ‘little loves’, her second child having been born with a rare terminal condition, Edwards Syndrome, whom she considers to have been a special blessing and gift in her life.